donald trump is the only president who has created more reasons for impeachment than the congress knows what to do with. donald trump is not being impeached for being identified by federal prosecutors in a criminal case as the person who directed and participated in the crimes that michael cohen committed while paying off a porn star to help donald trump win the presidency. he s not getting impeached for that. discussions of the possible impeachment of donald trump began on this program then first year of the trump presidency because the president was so manifestly incompetent and in obvious public violation of his oath of office repeatedly. before the end of donald trump s first year in office ezra
that you were going to be table get republican votes for can any article of impeachment against donald trump. now look at the obstruction of congress article, right? there s nothing in that you can even begin to argue with. you couldn tb begin to put up a defense on that. if it s clear he obstructed congress in the impeachment incanquiry down the line. yet we live in this sort of post truth trumpest world in which the republican party has to somehow say that s not all true, when in fact it obviously is all true. it just was pt worth putting in an article so it could be knocked off by republicans who wanted to vote for one or two other articles. that wasn t going to happen. something else that was super
with that assumption? the real answer to your question is that was then, this is now. today is the republican party, and it seemed crystal clear it was very unlikely, vanishingly unlike leyou were able to get republican votes for any article of impeachment against donald trump. i mean, look at the obstruction of congress article, there s nothing in there that that you could even begin to argue with. oats very clear he s obstructed congress in his impeachment inquiry down the line. yet we live in this sort of post-truth trumpest world ipwhich the republican party has to somehow say that s not all true when in fact it obviously is all true. so it just wasn t worth putting
my friend. we have a member of congress in our first discussion here tonight to talk about what exactly he expects tomorrow night as the judiciary committee goes forward. well-done. thank you, rachel. well, on the day articles of impeachment were introduced against donald trump, he gave russia s foreign minister what he continues to give to the president of ukraine, an oval office meeting. we ll discuss that this hour. the last time donald trump met with the russian foreign minister in the oval office it was the day after president trump fired fbi director james comey. this time the day after donald trump s meeting with the russian foreign minister the house of r representatives is going to be debating articles of impeachment against donald trump. donald trump did not quite make it to a thousand days in office before the house of representatives began an impeachment inquiry against donald trump.
but every once in a very great while, sometimes only once in a generation there comes a day when it s all about the oath. the president s oath of office appears to mean very little to him. but the articles put forward today will give us a chance to show that we will defend the constitution and that our oath means something to us. house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler signed his name, quote, impeaching donald john trump, president of the united states for high crimes and misdemeanors. the articles of impeachment summarized the case against president trump in just over eight pages. there are two articles of impeachment. article one is abuse of pewer orb article two is obstruction of congress. art one say using the power of